Registration and Tuition

The tuition is $3960. plus one time $20 registration fee, or you can register for each course individually for $495 with a $20.00 registration fee per semester. Payment plans can be arranged. Please contact our bursar office at 212.772.4300. To register for courses please click on the Course Browser/Registration.

Payment Plans can be viewed here.

Program Requirements

Eight Required Courses:

• Introduction to Law
• Litigation
• Contracts
• Legal Research
• Writing and Drafting Legal Instruments
• Elective
• Elective
• Elective

Students choose 3 electives to complete the program from the following offerings:

Torts, Criminal Law, Landlord and Tenant, Real Property, Domestic Relations, Corporations, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, Arbitration and Mediation, Wills and Estates.

Not every elective course is given every term; usually there will be a choice of three electives a term. Courses may be added or dropped from time to time. Please review the course catalog for the current semester’s offerings and course descriptions.

After having successfully completed the program, the student receives a Certificate issued by Continuing Education as well as a transcript. Additionally, a transcript is kept for 7 years on file in the Continuing Education office.

Advanced Certificate

From time to time the program may offer advanced courses in a series of semesters which, along with basic electives, may constitute an Advanced Paralegal Program. Students are eligible for an Advanced Certificate if they have completed the Basic Program and then take a combination of 4 advanced courses or additional electives. Students with paralegal certificates from other programs or with extensive paralegal backgrounds may also be eligible for admission at the discretion of the director.